Zonkey: Zoo welcomes the birth of a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey

A zoo in Northern Mexico has welcomed its latest arrival this week – a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey.

The ‘zonkey’ was born on 21 April at the Reynosa Zoo to a zebra who had mated with a dwarf, blue-eyed albino donkey named Ignacio.

The calf, called Khumba by staff, was born after its mother Rayas visited Ignacio, who lives on a nearby farm.

Video footage captured by the zoo shows the calf with stripes on its legs running around an enclosure with its mother.

The zoo said such a cross is rare because zebra and donkey chromosomes were not thought to be compatible, according to WTVY.

A zonkey called Ippo quickly became a tourist attraction when he was born in Florence, Italy last year after his father, a zebra, jumped over a fence and into a donkey enclosure.

Zonkeys have also been reported in China, the United States and Japan.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/zonkey-zoo-welcomes-the-birth-of-a-rare-cross-between-a-zebra-and-a-donkey-9291174.html

Aww how cute  

 

I SHALL now eagerly await the esteemed L'ilAndy, Shady and Smelly, and their company of like minded progressives, to pass judgement (and wind..) upon this devil-spawn "Inter-racial marriage" fiasco !!!

IT'S all an evil left-wing socialist/Marxist/vegan plot to bring on "the end of the world as we know it" !

IF God had intended cross-species breeding she wouldn't have invented the UKIP, BNP and EDL..

 ::lightsab::

Aww its cute

 

DON'T tell BA and Shady that !!!

Next they will probably be looking for recipes to barbecue it..   

It looks like it's wearing stripey stockings

 

BY the by...

THAT'S not a "zonkey"..  [That's a zebra x donkey.]

THIS foal is a donkey x zebra..

I RECKON it should be called a "debra" !!!  

atleast it isnt a Honkey

Colchester Zoo had a Zedonk back in the 1970s and there have been some other zebra crossings (not to cross the road!)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118901/The-strangest-zoo-Britain-See-zedonk-zorse-Zonkey-cross-bred-horses-show.html

Is it just me or is zonkey a really shite name?

Surely Zebkey would've been better?

Its a donkzee zedonk

thats why miss piggy would never have kids with kermit

there is NO WAY she was having her kids called...............................FRIGS.........
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